Increase Your IT Capacity
With a Flexible Virtualization Strategy

Affiliated can improve your efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications with a data center virtualization strategy. Transform or "virtualize" your data center's physical servers/machines into "virtual machines" so you can increase IT administrator productivity, reclaim network ports, reclaim data center capacity, and reduce costs.

Affiliated Virtualization Specialists will help you:

• Get more out of your existing IT resources - pooling common infrastructure resources means none of your server capacity is idle
• Gain operational flexibility - virtual machines are highly portable, and that allows IT to quickly migrate virtual machines between physical machines for physical hardware maintenance or balancing of workloads across your entire infrastructure
• Increase security - if a physical server fails, its virtual machines can be quickly restarted on another physical server

Virtualization Can Save You Money

According to Forrester Research, most companies dedicate the majority of their IT budget to Maintenance and to the Ongoing Operations of Systems and Equipment, also known as MOOSE. On average, says Forrester Research, the cost of MOOSE consumes about 65% to 70% of firms' IT budgets, leaving just 30% to 35% for new investments.

Virtualization works by eliminating the old "one server, one application" model and then running multiple virtual machines on each physical machine. Virtualization lets you share the resources of that one physical machine across multiple environments, shifting your focus from maintenance to resource innovation. Therefore, with a data center virtualization strategy, fewer resources are dedicated to MOOSE.

Most firms interviewed by Forrester Research in a July 2009 report said that they recouped their investment in virtualization within one year, with some companies breaking even within a few months.

Why Affiliated Recommends Virtualization Software for Your Datacenter

Depending on your business goals and datacenter environment, we will help you select the right virtualization platform that will suit your needs. Affiliated recommends and supports the following two industry-leading virtualization platforms:

• VMware vSphere - a virtualization platform for building cloud infrastructures, enables you to run business critical applications with confidence and respond to your business faster
• Microsoft Hyper-V - a stand-alone Microsoft product that provides you a reliable and optimized virtualization platform enabling you to improve server utilization and reduce costs

Cutting Costs Has Never Been Easier. Contact us for your free Virtualization Value Kit today.